When is the last time you heard of a Half-Human Hybrid who was human on his or her father's side? As stated under Dhampyr, these creatures' mothers tend to be human, and their fathers... something else. In the case of Vampires and Little People, a human just seems more likely to successfully carry a hybrid to term. Or maybe the idea of a human lady being seduced and ravished by some dashingly handsome male vampire/werewolf/demon/angel/alien/whatever is more alluring to some audiences than the opposite, for whatever reason.

Additionally, a lot of half-human hybrids are the product of rape, love-em-and-leave-em seduction, or tragic romance. Generally, it's easier to justify a Glorified Sperm Donor if he's Not Even Human. Out of our traditional assumption that it is the men who travel and the women who stay home, or the simple biological fact that if a relationship ends or never existed in the first place while the woman is pregnant, she'll end up with the baby, comes the possibility that the child will be brought up among humans.

If the father does stick around in a mixed marriage with the mother, that's still no guarantee of a happy childhood. All will be discriminated against, and chances are one or both parents will be killed by bigots... sometimes inside their own family.

Compare Mars Needs Women, where if other species find female humans attractive, it stands to reason that there would be more hybrid children. Contrast Boldly Comingnote The female tends to a): be reallyreally beautiful, b): die before the story begins, and c): if she stays alive, be the queen of her race. Nonhuman mums generally also belong to more "feminine" races, such as fairies, mermaids, angels, and the like. Also, inversions may have the male as a Retired Badass and the female as part of the Standard Hero Reward.. See also I Hate You, Vampire Dad.

Straight Examples

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Anime and Manga

Vampire Hunter D: Count Magnus Lee to D: 'Was your sire ... Dracula?!?' Also, it's revealed the Count's daughter Lamirca was the result of a fling with a mortal.

In the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust movie, Left-Hand briefly implies that D's motivation for Charlotte Ellborne isn't money, it's the possibility that she and Meir Link could conceive another danpeal/dhampyr.

This seems to hold true for all of the (natural) dhampyrs in the books.

InuYasha: Tends to hold true for canon hanyou; the title character (half-dog demon), Shiori (half-bat demon) and Jinenji (half-horse demon) are all the product of youkai fathers and human mothers.

One exception appears in a filler arc in the anime where Gyu-oh is the son of a human male and a female bull-youkai.

However, the inversion is Played for Laughs when Inuyasha and Kagome meet Jinenji's mother, an elderly crone with a terrifying temper. They initially think she's a demonic mountain witch until they learn she's the human parent.

In the film InuYasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island appears six more half-youkais. At them, however, it is unknown whether the father or the mother was the youkai. A flashback shows the time in which there were many half-youkais on this island. And there is implied that in most cases, the father was a youkai and the mother was a human.

Dragon Ball spat out five of these, all born from Saiyan dads and human moms: Gohan, Goten (sons of Goku and Chi-Chi), Trunks, Bra (children of Vegeta and Bulma) and Pan (daughter of Gohan and Videl).

Nurarihyon No Mago has an youkai grandfather and a (spiritually strong) human grandmother, his mother is human and his father is half-human. There are some other characters who share this trait too.

In Silent Möbius, Rally Cheyenne's mother is human and her father is a Lucifer Hawk (basically a demon). Katsumi Liqueur has the same kind of parentage. Their heritages are part of the reason they can tap mystic powers.

Kishin Douji Zenki has Prince Inugami, whose mother was a human lady named Rengetsu and his father was a very powerful demon.

The protagonist Yusuke in YuYu Hakusho is the descendant of a union between a female human doctor in feudal Japan and Raizen, one of the strongest demon lords of Makai. Yusuke then undergoes Mazoku Atavism, in which his demonic heritage springs to the forefront.

Borderline case: In Fullmetal Alchemist, Ed and Al have a human mother and a father who is a living Philosopher's Stone. While said father is technically still human, he's also far from normal.

Meet the Okumura twins from Blue Exorcist: the offspring of a human mother and Satan. Rin's the only one who inherits the demonic tendencies, however. Or so we think; Yukio also shows them later too.

La Blue Girl: Miko is the daughter of King Seikima (a demon king) and Maria, a human woman. It was something of a political arrangement. Miko's clan originally used sex to hunt those demons because they were engaged in rampant rape; the marriage was a way of forging a truce between them so they don't rape/kill each other.

In Saint Beast, Kira and Maya's mother is human, and their father is the angel Lucifer. They are raised in heaven by neither parent, but kept away from others due to Fantastic Racism.

Justified in Tokyo Ghoul. Itori explains that even if a female Ghoul managed to conceive a child with a human, her body would simply treat her half-human offspring like a food source and absorb it for nutrients. On the other hand, a half-breed conceived by a human woman would die from malnutrition in the womb. Its eventually revealed that the mother of the One-Eyed Owl resorted to Cannibalism to address this problem.

In Endride, Louise's mom was Endra (basically human) and her father was Zoozian (humanoid animal). They endured a Maligned Mixed Marriage despite the discrimination and punishment it brought on them, but although Louise could pass as Endra, watching what they faced turned her into something of a Broken Bird.

Comic Books

Hellboy is the son of the human witch Sarah Hughes and demon prince Azzael.

Invincible is the son of the Ersatz Superman, Omni-man, with a human for a mother.

Raven from Teen Titans has the demon Trigon for a father. Trigon himself is the result of a union between a female member of a sect and the god they worshipped, both from another dimension. Likewise, her teammate Cassie "Wonder Girl" Sandsmark is the daughter of Zeus and a human woman. Which is perfectly in character with the mythological Zeus.

Genis and Phyla, the children of Kree Captain Mar-Vell and Elysius, who confusingly was an Eternal artificially created by a super-powerful computer named ISSAC. Their father is an alien, while their mother is a member of a human subspecies. Oh, and their grandpa is a computer. Similarly, Suzy Sherman, aka Ultra Girl, is the daughter of a Kree father and a human mother.

From Marvel's mythological side: Ares, the Greek War God, has a half-human, mortal son named Alexander. Loki, the Norse trickster god, also has a half-human daughter named Tess Black. (Actually, Loki has hundreds of children. "I'm a Norse god.." he claims. "It... happens.")

Katar Hol's father is a Thanagarian and his mother is a Cherokee woman.

The Lilim, most famously as portrayed in Lucifer, is an entire race of this. Being the first woman, we can't even say Lilith just looks like a human. And she has at least one child with seemingly every living thing in creation except man.

Bigby Wolf and Snow White copulate while under the effects of a magic potion, (however, since Bigby is able to shift between wolf and human forms, Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action is averted,) causing Snow to give birth to six children capable of shifting between wolf and human forms and flying, plus a seventh who is a sentient gust of wind with no physical form. The flying and wind powers are a variation of Bigby's "huff-and-puff", which he got because he's the lupine version of this trope; his mother was a normal wolf and his father was the god-like, shapeshifting North Wind.

Beauty and the Beast have a child, and while both parents were human at the time, there was enough of Beast's powers transferred to make the child able to transform into a multi-limbed monster.

In DC Comics, Etrigan is the brother of Merlin (son of a demon father and human mother) in some stories.

The New 52 version of Wonder Woman is the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus.

In Runaways, Victor Mancha is the son of the killer robot Ultron and a human woman, although in this case, there was no insemination involved - Ultron built Victor's body. There's a popular theory that later Runaway Klara is the daughter of a mortal woman and some sort of god, though this has never been stated in canon.

Fan-Fiction

Annabelle from 'Shadows Of The Past' is with with a human mother and a Decepticon father. How this works is still trying to be decided.

The basic premise of Child of the Storm is that Harry is the son of Thor. What complicates matters slightly is the fact that Thor was incarnated as James at the same, since this was the first attempt at teaching him humility. As can be imagined, it went pear shaped and Thor nearly went insane, leading to his memory being blocked and to the events of Thor.

In the Megamind fic Knocked Up, the alien Megamind ends up getting the human Roxanne pregnant. Their daughter, Emma, looks more alien thanks to her father having stronger genes.

Anakin's father is nonhuman regardless of which origin story is the truth. Either he was conceived by The Force or he was created by Darth Plagueis, a Muun and Palpatine's Master.

A little more straightforward example: Darth Maul is a Dathomirian... a hybrid born of a human (Witch of Dathomir) mother and a Zabrak father. This trope then becomes genetic: male Dathomirians resemble their Zabrak fathers, where female Dathomirians resemble their human mothers.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, the main protagonist, has a human mother and a father who is "something very old" and unknown. This parallels the treatment in the original comic books, where his father is J'Son, Emperor of the Spartoi.

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series this is the most common scenario for crossbreeds between humans and the chieri. Of course, given the chieri's reclusive lifestyle, ability to change gender and ridiculously long lifespans it is usually just more likely that such pairings tend to lean more towards human women bearing half-chieri children. There are exceptions however, such as in The World Wreckers, where a chieri bears the child of a human father.

Renesmee from Twilight. It's apparently only even possible for a male vampire to have a child with a female human; they can't even have children with female vampires (who can't have children at all).

Played sort of sideways in Animorphs. Tobias is the son of a human woman and an Andalite, an alien, but is genetically fully human himself since Andalites can shapeshift and his father was in human form when he was conceived.

Also Inverted. Sarissa and Maeve are the daughters of Queen Mab of the Unseelie Court and an unknown mortal man. Mab herself also claims to have been part human, and her mother is one of (or possibly two of) the world's most powerful faeries.

Harry himself is something of an inversion. His father was a stage magician, his mother a powerful, mysterious wizard.

Thomas and most of the Raiths. Interestingly, from a breeding standpoint, all White Court vampires, like Thomas, start out as vanilla full-blooded humans at birth (they may or may not even know they're anything but). A sort of symbiotic demon wakes up within them when they're around 18, and gives them little subconscious nudges telling them to feed. If they do, it awakens fully and turns them into proper vampires, but if you can keep them from feeding and their first meal is a person they genuinely love and loves them back, it "starves" and they live out their life as vanilla humans.

As of Skin Game, add Goodman Grey to the list. It's heavily implied that his father is a naagloshii.

Toyed with in Bruce Coville's Rod Albright Alien Adventures series. The title character's mother is human; his father is... well, actually human as well. Thing is, he's an Atlantean human, off a different genetic road.

The children's book My Dad, Atomic Ace. As the title implies, his father is a famous superhero with powers on the scale of Superman, while his mother is perfectly ordinary. The end of the book reveals that he's starting to develop his father's powers, on the somewhat weaker scale of his father's early years.

This is the case for Vladimir Tod in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. Partially subverted though in that his parents actually got married and led a very happy, normal life together until they were murdered.

Played straight in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, when Percy is a demigod and the son of Poseidon, as well as the existence of children of all the other male gods. There are plenty of inversions as well (characters who are the offspring of Aphrodite et al), and the first one is lampshaded: Percy knows that the girl he's talking to is a human/god half-breed like himself, and he asks her "Who's your father?" The girl patiently explains that her father is a normal human, and it's her mother who is one of the goddesses.

Most of the vampires in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls are born of human mothers and vampire fathers. Brite's vampires are a predatory subspecies of humanity, that interbreeds with and preys upon their human cousins. Interestingly, the younger vampires, such as Zillah and his lover and son Nothing, have so much human ancestry that they've lost almost all the 'classic' vampire traits such as fangs and vulnerability to sunlight. One character refers to a vampire woman who became pregnant when she was raped by a human, but her fetus killed her before its birth.

Werewolves in the Mercy Thompson series are biologically locked into this trope, as a female werewolf that gets pregnant will miscarry when her next lunar transformation kicks in. The one exception was Charles's mom, who suppressed her changes with Native American shamanic magic long enough to give birth, and her mate was also a werewolf, not a human. So, male werewolves must pair up with humans if they want to father kids. Mercy herself is the product of a human mother and a male coyote shapeshifter.

In the Chronicles of Prydain, the Sons and Daughters of Don — that is, most of the royalty in Prydain — are thus called because they are descended from a union between Lady Don (who is implied to be human) and the sun god Belin.

Played straight in Mikhail Akhmanov's Invasion, where Lieutenant Abigail McNeil is captured by the Faata and impregnated with the seed of a high-caste male (i.e. a powerful psychic). The resulting child, named Paul Richard Corcoran, develops his own telepathic abilities and uses them against the Faata, who have pretty much raped his mother. Averted with his descendants in the sequels, who can get the lineage from either the mother or the father (e.g. Corcoran had no sons, only two daughters).

Also averted with Mark Valdez's half-brother, whose mother is a Lo'ona Aeo. In fact, the half-brother himself is completely Lo'ona Aeo, as their reproduction is purely telepathic. Mark's father Sergey was only the catalyst to conception (this method is similar to Asari in Mass Effect). Then again, given the Sergey Valdez is himself descended from Paul Richard Corcoran, he is not entirely human either.

The mother of Vlad and Lacrimosa in Carpe Jugulum was originally a human, whereas their father was born as one of the de Magpyr vampires.

The Wardstone Chronicles: Both Tom and Alice fulfill this trope. Tom is the son of the Lamia (a Greek demi-goddess) and a human sailor. Alice is the daughter of The Fiend and a human witch.

In The Otherworld, half-demons are always born from a human woman and a demon. The demons take on humanoid form to seduce, and apparently one of the ways cacodemons (chaotic demons) cause chaos in the human world is...fathering babies.

The Obsidian Trilogy: Vestakia's mother was a Wildmage human, and her father a Demon prince in disguise. When her mother found out the truth, she cast a spell to ensure that Vestakia has a human mind and morals, at the cost of Demonic physical features. Vestakia thus has a difficult childhood until she meets the heroes.

Played straight and averted in the Deverry Chronicles. There are at least two half-humans with elven fathers, and one half-human with a dwarven father. The mook Loddlaen, however, has a human father and elven mother, and the lineage of the Maelwaedd's is traced back at least to the ascension to the gwerbrert seat of a male ancestor who had an elven wife. Which provides a convenient excuse for a half-elf son of the house who isn't known to be a half-elf. It's complicated.

Severely messed with in The Malloreon. A evil man agrees to help the demons attempt to interbreed with human women; such hybrids will serve the full demons. It does NOT end well for the mothers and most of the offspring.

Daine of The Immortals. Her mother Sarra was human and got a lot of flak from the village for having a bastard child, but she would always cryptically allude to Daine's father disapproving when they said she should get a husband. Her dad is a minor God of the Hunt named Weiryn, and it's from him that Daine gets her magic.

Magiere, (anti)heroine of The Saga of the Noble Dead is a dhampir with a human mother, vampire father. Justified in that Magiere's birth was only possible thanks to an elaborate magical ritual (vampires naturally being infertile) that consumed her father's energy and (re)killed him immediately following his having sex with her mother. Logistically, this would make a vampire being the mother essentially impossible (although in one early book a skeptical nobleman snidely asks Magiere if the vampire was her father or mother- she deflects the question, as at this stage she doesn't know).

However, it is inverted by Leesil. He is a half-elf, and has a human father and a elvish mother.

The dhampirs Joshua and Angeline Dawes from Last Sacrifice, have a Moroi vampire father and a human mother. They are members of the Keepers, where such mixed marriages are not uncommon.

In Auf zwei Planeten ("On Two Planets", 1897) by Kurd Laßwitz, the half-human, half-Martian Friedrich Ell is the son of All, a Martian spaceship captain stranded on Earth, and a German governess working in Australia. Ell was raised by both parents on Earth, but became a full orphan just before turning 21 (All never found a way to return to Mars). In the course of the novel another human/Martian couple is formed, consisting of German scientist Josef Saltner and the fair La, but the book ends before the two can seriously start to think about having children.

Kiriel, one of the main characters of The Sun Sword, is the daughter of a mortal woman and the god Allasakar (though her mother wasn't entire normal - as a healer-born, she had both Healing Handsand a Healing Factor, the latter of which was necessary for bearing a child of Allasakar's virulent power to term, and she still died in childbirth). Most of the god-born are like this, with the male gods being more likely to get involved with mortal women than the reverse, with the notable exception of the Mother's high priestess, who is also her daughter (the father being an unspecified mortal).

In The Mortal Instruments Warlocks and witches are the children of demons and humans. However, it is implied that most or almost all warlocks are born between demonic fathers and human mothers. The warlock Magnus Bane even once says that it is a rare exception when a Warlock has a human father and a demonic mother.

In The Infernal Devices has arranges the Big Bad there even that he can kidnap a shadowhunter-girl who no rune has (the runes prevent that female shadowhunters of demons can get pregnant), is born with a special kind of warlock for his plans (apparently he did not come of the idea, to bring together a male shadowhunter with a female demon, what this plan would have made a lot easier for him).

In The Dark Artifices but it is inverted. Helen and Mark Blackthorn are the children of a male shadowhunter and a female fairy. Thus, it is not still the combination of a human father and a non-human mother, but rather a half-human father and a non-human mother.

The Doctor himself according to the TV Movie, in which the Master discovers his hybrid biology. This is confirmed by the Doctor later on, with the line "I'm half human on my mother's side". However, due to the fact that the series from 2005 onwards never mentioned the subject again, some have come to doubt it was true in the first place.

To add to that point, one thing about the nature of ‘canon’ (especially in series’ that have lasted a long time and have gone through different stages with different writers over the years) that these people seem to forget - if a statement is presented as true at the time, as it was in this case, then it will remain true until the issue is brought up again and is stated to be false. Long story short - until the current Doctor Who series states otherwise, the Doctor will remain half human on his mother’s side.

Outside the official canon the line is a source of mockery. In the Expanded Universe IDW comicThe Forgotten, Eight explains it away as a trick, achieved with only "a wide-eyed expression, a couple of words, and a half-broken chameleon arch"; and in "Bad Wolf" RTD got in a little jab:

Rose: That would make them... half human. Dalek Emperor: THOSE WORDS ARE BLASPHEMY!

The Vespiform in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" plays this trope a bit straighter though. (Daddy was a giant wasp. Unicorns were probably not involved.)

One of the experiments in V. Robin Maxwell gets pregnant by a Visitor.

The Visitors' plan in V (2009) seems to be to capture human females and impregnate them.

Angel's Doyle is perfectly human—on his mother's side. His father was a Brachen demon. Later in the series and the comics there are more half-demons. Many parents are not known, but it is implied that in most cases, the father is a demon and the mother is a human.

But by Billy Blim it is inverted, he has a human father and a demonic mother.

On Sliders, Wade got Put on a Bus by sending her to a breeding farm, where she presumably had babies with the CroMags as fathers. Justified in that, thanks to Quinn and Colin's parents, the Kromagg females always die at childbirth. This necessitates breeding Half Human Hybrids, while trying to keep their human emotions in check.

Earth: Final Conflict: Lili had a half human/half Jaridian baby. Liam is an interesting case in that he has three parents. His alien father Ha'gel was an Energy Being who took the form of Ronald Sandoval and, more or less, raped Siobhan Beckett (although no actual intercourse took place). Beckett gives birth in record time, and the child matures in a matter of days. Liam, thus, has the genes of not only Sandoval and Beckett but also Ha'gel (he has triple-helix DNA).

In Mahou Sentai Magi Ranger, Isamu was one of the Magitopians who went missing with Hikaru after their ill fated fight against Infershia and Meemy's Face–Heel Turn, Miyuki was a mere human at that point until she asked Magiel to give her holy saint powers to fight against the forces of Infershia and to give her children a chance

Alluded to in Tracker, where the main character, Mel, discovers that her grandfather was an alien.

The Fallen mini-series (and the original novels) are based on the myth of Fallen Angels coming to Earth after the defeat of Lucifer, many of whom impregnate human women. These children are Nephilim, half-angels who have their parents' angelic abilities (e.g. speaking any language, flying, creating flaming swords and throwing fireballs) but not the experience to use them. The angels who fought in the war, called the Powers, hunt down the Fallen and their offspring, believing it to be the Creator's will (Archangel Michael later reveals that is not so). It can be assumed that angels cannot reproduce amongst themselves, even though two are shown having sex. Also, it is implied that only male angels are fertile. No child of a female angel is ever mentioned. Additionally, all human women carrying Nephilim die at childbirth, which usually leaves the Nephilim resentful towards their fathers.

The protagonist is a special kind of Nephilim known as the Redeemer, prophesied by Lucifer to be able to redeem fallen angels who wish to return to Heaven. Apparently, for a fallen angel to die before redemption is a Fate Worse Than Death (i.e. nothingness).

A less obvious example is Sabrina's parents in Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Her mother is a human architect, while her father is a warlock trapped in a spellbook!

Out of This World: The series revolves around Evie Ethel Garland, a young girl who discovers on her thirteenth birthday that her father is an alien named Troy, from the planet Antareus, who married her mother and "merged lifeforms" to create Evie. Evie's half-alien heritage gives her superhuman abilities.

In Supernatural once appeares a young Demigott named Oliver, who is the son of Prometheus. In addition, there is also a half-demon named Jesse Turner, who has a demon father and a human mother (though he was not convinced by sex). Finally, you can also see a female Nephilim named Jane. But with her, it is unknown who her parents were (though among some fans is believed that she was the daughter of a guardian angel, whereby it would also play straight with her).

In Smallville occurs the young girl Maddie van Horn. She has a metahuman as father, and a human as mother. And she has the same powers as her father.

In The Shannara Chronicles this trope is even played very strong. Will is a half-elf, and had an elven father and a human mother. Throughout the series of time is always told what his father was a hero, what powerful forces he had, what he has done special, etc.. His mother is against it only rarely mentioned after the first episode. Later appears a small half-elf girl, who also had an elven father and a human mother, but she was conceived by a rape.

Xena: Warrior Princess plays with this trope by implying that Xena is the daughter of a human woman, Cyrene, and Ares, God of War.

Mythology and Religion

Most of the demigods and other Half Human Hybrids in Classical Mythology. Hercules, the Minotaur, Romulus and Remus, Pollux, Minos, Helen, maybe Dionysus... There are some exceptions, but they're significantly outnumbered. (In fact, Zeus has had a lot of children with mortal lovers; that tends to happen with people like him.)

Merlin is usually said to be half-human, with his father as an incubus, demon or the Devil himself. Other versions describe his father as a fairy. His mother is said to be a nun or a princess, depending on the version.

Jesus. His mother was Mary, a human, and His father the Almighty God. How much that counts depends on your beliefs on the relationship of the human race and God, and where/what the difference is.

The book of Enoch depicts the "daughters of men" and "sons of God" from Genesis to be human women and watcher angels, making the fallen ones they birthed hybrids. Enoch never made it into the Jewish Tanakh though and most Christians ended up rejecting it too so if Genesis itself is a straight example of this trope or not is unknown.

Tabletop RPG

In the Dungeons & DragonsGreyhawk setting, the evil deity Iuz was the child of the human wizardess Iggwilv and the demon lord Graz'zt. (And Graz'zt has other children too, many with mortal lovers; Iuz is just the most well-known.)

Both played straight and inverted in Ravenloft, where the Gentleman Caller makes fathering half-fiends on human women a hobby. Hags, on the other hand, are a One-Gender Race who must invert this trope to reproduce. Harkon Lukas does the former a lot as well, red widows do the latter, and dread doppelgangers do both.

God-Blooded humans are fairly common in Exalted. Most written examples seem to involve the human parent being the mother, although this may be because female gods are capable of being much more discerning in the matter of child-bearing (not only do they generally not conceive unless they wish to, but they can control the length of the pregnancy), while male gods have to put up with the same randomness as everybody else. Inverted with any reference to women Lunars producing beastmen progeny (most notably Raksi, the Queen of Fangs.)

In Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons, Dragons are inherently magical creatures and can often shape shift. This has led to almost anything being able to carry the half-dragon template, caused by the parentage of the character or creature being a dragon on either the father or mother's side, although it seems that it is more common for the father to be one. This had led to many jokes to do with the heritage of half-dragon characters. (Doubly so if said character is a Druid). In fact, in the 2nd edition rules, it was explicitly stated that only male dragon/female humanoid pairings can produce half-dragon children.

Dionysus of Euripides's Bacchae. Interestingly, his case is the result of tragic romance, as opposed to how most of Zeus's children were conceived... The fact that his aunts and cousin deny his divine parentage sparks the conflict of the ancient play.

Kokonoe in BlazBlue has a human mother (Nine) and a cat father (Jubei), which explains her nekomata appearance.

Final Fantasy VII invokes this trope, with Hojo trying to pair Red XIII with Aerith; they're both nonhuman, but Aerith is basically a humanoid with special powers, while Red XIII is an Intellectual Animal.

Octodad, in which the main character is... An octopus who is a father to human children. In Dadliest Catch, when his family finally learns his secret, his son asks where did he and his sister come from, leading to an Everybody Laughs Ending.

In God of War, the anti-hero protagonist, Kratos, is the demigod son of Zeus, King of Olympus and All the Gods, and a mortal woman. Zeus overthrew his own father - Kronos, the King of the Titans - and seized control of all Creation. After Kratos slays Ares and is anoited the new God of War, Zeus betrays and murders his son to prevent him from visiting the same fate upon his father. Ironically, Zeus' pre-emptive strike becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; Kratos is reanimated by the vengeful Titans and leads them in a war on the Gods that culminates with Zeus' destruction and the fall of Olympus.

Eriko's dad in Illbleed. It's never explained exactly what he is, but he clearly isn't human.

The Baldur's Gate series has the protagonist, most antagonists, and a whole pile of others who are only seen briefly or just hinted at, as the children of Bhaal, god of murder. The main antagonist of the first game has a human mother as does Imoen. Some of the others that appear in the games have non-human mothers, such as giants and dragons, but many of those only shown briefly in flashbacks and the like appear human. The race of the PC's mother is up to the player.

In Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, fraternal twins Kharg and Darc were born to a human mother and a Deimos father. Both of them possess the same magical powers as their father, but only one inherited obvious Deimos features at birth. The other looks completely human until he sprouts wings.

Played straight for two generations in the backstory of Myst, with a D'ni and his half-human son both marrying humans from Earth's surface. Three generations, if Rivenese are also considered human.

Kaden and Keaton are shapeshifters, turning into a fox and a wolf respectively. Their potential wives are all human except a female Avatar, who is half human, so their daughters Selkie and Velouria will fit into this trope. If either of them marry Azura, Shigure will fit this trope and inherited their class.

Anankos is one of the godlike First Dragons, and the Final Boss of the game. He's also the father of the Player Character, who's mother is a human woman named Mikoto.

The male Avatar is half human, with the ability to turn into a dragon. His potential children will end up being a quarter dragon, and inherit his shapeshifting ability. Subverted if he's paired with Velouria or Selkie, who are beast shapeshifters like their fathers.

For those of you interested, this is the long and short of it. Amorphs 'reproduce' by budding off pieces of themselves and imbuing it with a new personality based off their own and that of the other parent. Basically, a child of Schlock and Breya's would be a new amorph with Schlock's 'genetics' and a mixture of Schlock's and Breya's personality traits.

In Drowtales, Ariel's father is a spider, and Rikshakar's father is a dragon. Technically, their mothers are drow, not humans, and despite appearances both are actually aversions, since their parents are just elves who were transformed into their current states.

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In the New Vindicators universe, all Nephilim are this, as all the seven fallen Seraphim they are descended from are male who sleep with human woman, almost always with the express purpose of making Nephilim children to use as minions. Played with a little, as the Seraphim can change their forms (one, Semyazza, often appears as a woman) and probably don't have the same sense of gender that humans do. However, no Nephilim has yet been carried to term by a female Fallen.

Played straight with the main Half Human Hybrids, Mack (demon father) and Steff (elf father).

Gender-flipped with Steff's half-ogre boyfriend, Viktor.

Whateley Universe example: Sara Waite (Carmilla) had a (mostly) human mother and a powerful lust demon for a father. Dad liked mom so much that Sara is his only child.

The Loved Ones in Day of the Barney. When the girls that Barney has taken under his wing as his Special Friends turn thirteen, they are taken away and out of sight. Meanwhile, Barney rapes them and impregnates them with the Loved Ones; the girls die giving birth to them.

Chatoyant College: Corrie finds out, in Books 5 and 6, that her (missing) father is actually a werewolf. The reason why he was not within her life is because her mother chucked him out because he neglected to mention that fact until she was pregnant.

Western Animation

Raven, from Teen Titans. As mentioned in the Comic Book section, she is half demon.

As with the Mythology example, according to Word of God, this is played straight with Merlin in this universe, being the son of Lord Oberon and a human woman. This is also gender-flipped with Fox, who has a human father and Titania as her mother. Not that she knows this.

Thailog was grown in a lab, but refers to Sevarius (the geneticist involved), Xanatos (the financier and mentor), and Goliath (the genetic donor) as his three fathers. He later created Delialah, who is 90% Gargoyle (on her mother, Demona's, side) and 10% human (on her mother, Elisa's, side).

A story involving Anansi features a proud female panther who The Trickster turned into a human woman who had several children before being permitted to return to her original form.

In one of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror specials, Maggie's father is one of the green tentacled cyclops aliens, Kang, who abducted Marge and impregnated her with some sort of ray.

Inversions/Aversions/Subversions

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Anime and Manga

Dragon Half has the eponymous half-human half-dragon girl Mink have a human father. This is mostly so one of her friends can question how someone hatched from an egg has a belly button. The series also features Mink's rival Vina, who has a Human Dad and a Slime Mom.

Krillin and Android 18 are an inversion of the norm for Dragon Ball Z, though admittedly she is human, too, just enhanced.

Macross: The children of Max and Milia. He is a human, she is a Zentraedi. They have seven children.

In the 1992 Star Trek graphic novel Debt of Honor by Chris Claremont and Adam Hughes, the Romulan officer T'Kir is revealed to be the daughter of James Kirk and T'Cel (Claremont's name for the Romulan commander from the original series, who at the same time is revealed to be the daughter of a Vulcan father and a Romulan mother).

In several fanfictions of Elfen Lied are Kouta and Lucy lovers, after she coming back (although Lucy dies in the manga, but it is strongly implied that she survived in the anime). Shortly afterwards, they also have a child or more children. These then also have a human father and a non-human mother.

In Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, in the "Lover's Vow" segment, a man unknowingly marries a gargoyle who's taken on human form. In a variant of the "yuki-onna" scenario (see Mythology below), both the wife and their two kids turn into gargoyles when he breaks a promise to her.

Here is the film different from the anime. In Blood The Last Vampire Hunter Saya is a dhampir, and she chases since 400 years vampires. She is the daughter of a male human and the vampire queen.

In 7th Son there are Tom and Alice. They both have humans as fathers and witches as mothers (in this film are witches another species than humans).

Literature

Jim Butcher likes this one — in his Codex Alera books, this trope is inverted in First Lord's Fury when Kitai, a non-human Marat woman, has a child with Tavi, a human man.

Inverted in all cases in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth (The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, etc.) and the films based on them: The father is always the more 'mundane', the mother the more 'exotic' parent: a few human males marry elven women, one elven male (Thingol) marries a female angel (Melian), and one mostly-human male (Aragorn) marries one elf-human-angel hybrid woman (Arwen), but the reverse never happens. The closest it comes is when the human-elf-angel hybrid Dior marries a purely elven woman, but he's still the more mortal of the two. Additionally, the various misfortunes befalling the families and children of these unions are never a result of the mixed marriage being rejected by their respective societies. The one known example of a female human and male elf falling in love never married, because he (Galadriel's brother Aegnor) believed a Mayfly-December Romance would only be even more painful than remaining apart (which noticeably never stopped Arwen or numerous other female elves). Aegnor's refusal becomes rather funny since he ended up dying long before Andreth, and they remain apart but forever pining for each other even in death.

A notable inversion: groundskeeper Hagrid is revealed mid-way through the series (to the surprise of practically no one, except Ron) to be half-giant; his father, a wizard, was entirely human, but his mother was a giantess (it's best not to consider the logistics of it).

Fleur is an inversion herself; her grandmother was a veela and her mother is the one that is part veela.

Implied future inversion: In The Elenium and The Tamuli trilogies by David Eddings, it's strongly implied that Sparhawk's daughter Danae will marry the young thief Talen when she grows up. Their children will fit this trope, since Danae is really the Child-Goddess Aphrael.

In The Magician's Nephew, the epilogue mentions that King Frank and Queen Helen, the only two humans to remain in Narnia immediately after its creation, have two sons who both marry nymphs, thus founding the original royal houses of Narnia and Archenland.

Going back to David Eddings and the world of The Belgariad and Malloreon, an odd twist combined with an inversion. Eventually fleshed out in the prequel novel Belgarath the Sorcerer. Dryads (forest nymphs, in line with the name) are considered humanoid monsters, but they have the ability to have children with humans. An entire line of Tolnedran emperors take on Dryad wives. Thing is, the results aren't Half Human Hybrids. Male children are human while female children are Dryads (this is because Dryads are Always Female, they need human males for reproduction). This is eventually shown to have carried through to Ce'Nedra, the latest of the line. She is a Dryad, and she eventually has children that keep to that trend.

Inverted in The Fight For Home as Sarah Collins is the child of a Silician mother and human father. However she winds up being raised by her human father and has been brought up believing she is full human.

The young girl Merle from Dark Reflections Trilogy was born between a human male and a female Sphinx (which could but shapeshift into a human). However, she appears to be an ordinary girl without special powers.

Live-Action TV

Inverted in Kamen Rider Kiva, where Wataru is the son of a Fangire woman (Maya) and a human man (Otoya). There doesn't seem to be anything that would stop Fangire and humans from mating except for the rules of the species.

But played straight in the Kamen Rider Decade version, where AR Wataru had a Fangire father and human mother.

Bewitched. The show inverts this trope when Darren and Samantha have their baby Tabitha.

Charmed uses this, depending on whether you view witches as human or nonhuman. If they're nonhuman, the trope is inverted in the case of Prue, Piper, and Phoebe (human dad/nonhuman mom). If they're human, the trope is played straight in the case of Paige (human mom/nonhuman dad). If they are human, Piper's sons and Phoebe's children have this true about them as well. Whether they're human or not, the trope is inverted in the case of Paige's children, since she married a "mortal" human, Henry, and is half Whitelighter (and thus, technically, nonhuman). Of course, Paige, as well as Piper's sons Wyatt and Chris, is half dead person, so it isn't clear how that works, but their fathers are still nonhuman.

Brandon, the half-warlock from the first season, played this trope straight as well. Cole was half human half demon as well, but his mother was a demon, while his father was human.

Phoebe's children are this played straight if the sisters are human - she married a Cupid, who is not.

Both inverted and invoked in Battlestar Galactica. The inversion is obvious first: Boomer is a Cylon. Then we learned who it was invoked by: Teyril & Cally. That second actually becomes an aversion when we learn that the boy is actually Hotdog and Cally's son - two humans,

Inverted in Babylon 5, when John and Delenn give birth to David Sheridan. Many episodes reference extensive medical intervention that is needed despite Delenn's transformation in order for this to happen, so it's not likely that humans and Minbari are naturally interfertile. It also helps that Delenn is descended from Sinclair who has turned himself into a Minbari named Valen.

Averted with Kirk's son in the "Shatnerverse" novels, whose mother is a genetically-engineered Klingon-Romulan-human hybrid. According to Spock, the kid is also Vulcan by virtue of his Romulan blood. The boy turns out to be genetically identical to the Precursors found by Picard in "The Chase", even though he should be missing many other genetic markers, such as that of the Cardassians.

Andy Bellefleur's half-fairy, quadruplet daughters on True Blood. Their mother is Maurella, Sookie's fairy cousin, who gave birth after her accelerated fairy pregnancy and promptly left her babies with Andy in the human realm.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer there are Robin Wood, who is the son of a slayer. He is the child of a male human and a female "metahuman".

Mythology and Religion

The Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh's mother was a Goddess named Ninsun and his two fathers were another God and a mortal man, which incidentally would have been one of the first cases of a human hybrid recorded in literature.

While Greek mythology plays it straight most of the time, there are many inversions of this trope as well. Achilles is a notable one. Usually a demigod's father is one of the male Jerkass Gods who bed anything in a skirt, but his father is a human Happily Married (We Are as Mayflies notwithstanding) to a nymph. Furthermore, Hercules and so on are usually taken to owe their heroic power to divine inheritance. Achilles' invulnerability doesn't come from this.

An Enforced Inversion in Achilles' case. His mother, Thetis, caught the eye of Zeus, until Gaia predicted that any son that Thetis bore would be more powerful than his father. Zeus wanted to avoid that, so he dropped Thetis like a hot potato, and (if memory serves) forbade her from marrying a god. He actually set her up with a mortal man who was described as being weak (so that Thetis's child wouldn't be that much stronger) but he was Badass Normal enough to hold onto her no matter what ugly form she took.

In The Iliad, Achilles' mother was Thetis but his great-grandfather was Zeus. When boasting about his godly parentage, it's always his descent from Zeus he mentions, never his (much more direct) descent from Thetis. In this sense, he plays this trope straight.

Also from the Trojan cycle there is the Ethiopian king Memnon (who ends up being killed by Achilles), the son of the goddess Eos (rose-fingered Dawn) and Tithonos, a brother of king Priam of Troy. Memnon's brother Emathion had previously been killed by Heracles. According to some sources, Phaeton was the son of Eos and the demigod Kephalos (son of Hermes and Herse).

The goddess Demeter and her mortal lover Iasion had a son, Plutos, god of wealth. According to other authors, Demeter also had other children from mortal lovers.

Various non-Homeric sources state that Odysseus fathered children by Circe (a goddess) and/or Calypso (a nymph) when he was held prisoner by them. According to the most common version, Telegonos, son of Odysseus and Circe, in the end accidentally killed his father. According to some Italic authors (but not Virgil), Circe then married Telemachus (son of Odysseus and Penelope) and gave birth to Latinus, who eventually became Aeneas' father-in-law.

From The Aeneid, Aeneas. Not only was Venus his mother, according some legend his human father Anchises was half-naiad on his mother's side too. In any case, being the ancestor of the Julian family (and consequently, Gaius Julius Caesar), this divine parentage was vital to Roman Cultural Posturing. However, Aeneas (in Greek: Aineias) had already been known as the son of Aphrodite (Venus) and Anchises to Homer (in the Iliad), Hesiod (Theogony) and the "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" centuries before Virgil.

Inverted with the most popular legend about the Yukionna in Japan. A man married a Yukionna disguised as a human woman and has several kids with her.

Japanese Mythology would invert this all the time, especially with myths about the kitsune. A kitsune would marry a human man and have a happy life and numerous kids with him, only for her cover to be blown by a person/a dog/alcohol, and forcing her to leave her husband and children forever. Depending on the story, either Love Conquers All and the kitsune wife comes back to be with her husband at night (when no one can see her), or she leaves forever.

A lot of these pairings end with the non-human mother leaving, generally after her husband breaks a promise like talking about the yuki-onna after being warned to never speak of her (despite the only person he told was his wife who was the yuki-onna), discovering her real, embarrassing form after warning him not to look such as becoming a huge dragon to give birth (the baby was a normal human) or a crane to weave feather-light cloth, or discovering she'd been deceived like the heavenly maiden whose magic clothes were stolen by the man she eventually married and had kids with.

There are also the Scandinavian myths of Huldra (female forest-spirits), who will occasionally marry and start families with human men. The same thing goes for selkies in Scottish mythology. Selkies are human woman/seal shape-shifters, who will do the bidding of any man who hides their "seal-skin".

In one Lakota creation story, the first two people are both male, so they take wives from the animal kingdom. Eventually, they stop doing so when this starts creating monsters.

Hrolf Kraki's Saga has an inversion where the main character's half-sister is half-elf on her mother's side. It also featured Bodvar Bjarki who might be a straight example, as his father was cursed to turn into a bear by day and no longer fully human due to that curse.

According to some Judeo-Christian traditions Samael employed a quartet of fallen angels to trick and seduce men, raping them in the event that does not work. The offspring from these unions is raised for the purpose plaguing mankind, though they sometimes turn out to be somewhat decent people despite their heritage.

According to a French folk tale, the powerful Lusignan family was descended from Melusine (sometimes spelled "Merlusigne"), a female water-spirit who married a knight but had to leave him when he once saw her in her true form.

Non-Africans, who average 5% Neanderthal DNA, do not have any known Y-chromosome genes (which are passed down from the father) which are of Neanderthal origins, which suggests the inverted version may have been the case when humans and neanderthals interbred (or that male hybrids were infertile, making this a case of human dad, hybrid mom).

Tabletop RPG

Commonly averted in the cases of Half-Elves in earlier editions of Dungeons & Dragons. Background material tend to have a large portion of half elves being the result of rape on Elven women by human raiders or mercenaries, seeing as how Our Elves Are Better, thus male (and female) Elves tend not to seek out females outside of other Elves. This is especially common in the Dragonlance setting.

Inverted with hags and hagspawn, given that hags are an all female race. With one known canonical exception, hags usually kidnap and rape human males, then eat them and bear their offspring. Male children are hagspawn, while female children are hags.

Harpies are, like hags, an all-female race that is often portrayed as relying on human(oid) mates to procreate. Again, like hags, their partners are usually involuntary and/or don't always live through the experience.

In 2e, there was an obscure all-female race known as the weredragons, who depended on human men to father their daughters.

Because the stereotype for Half-Orcs in D&D and Pathfinder is to make them a Child by Rape and thusly playing this trope straight, a few prominent half-orcs avert the first trope and usually do so by inverting this trope. One of the oldest examples is from the Planescape setting, where the Factol of the Bleakers was born between a loving couple of human man and female orc.

Scion averts this, as a Scion can be the child of a human woman and god or the child of a human man and a goddess.

In fact, the vast majority of the goddesses are just as busy making Scions as their male counterparts. Even Hera, in the Dodekatheon, is known to take human men to give her Scion children. Of the original six pantheons (Pesedjet, Dodekatheon, Atzlanti, Aesir, Amatsukami, Loa), only three deities refuse to make Scions naturally at all: Artemis (devoutly lesbian; when she wants sex with a human, she's always chasing skirts), Athena (who for some reason just can't shake that "virgin goddess" thing) and Osiris (who is less unwilling and more unable; he's castrated).

In fact, given the existence of an Epic Appearance perk that allows completely functional genderbending, and which is the canonical source of one sample Daeva scion (mom was a human; "dad" was Kali genderbent into a male form), there may actually be some Artemis scions who were actually born, not adopted.

Theater

In the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Iolanthe, Strephon has a human father and a fairy mother, and consequently is half-human from the waist down. At one point he laments that he will have to watch half of him grow old while the other stays young, and it's fairly obvious what he's referring to here.

Video Games

Inverted for Shantae, who has a genie mommy and a human daddy. The ending of Risky's Revenge implies her father might have been more than a normal human, as Shantae's Prehensile Hair is not a genie power.

Averted in Mass Effect, for a certain definition of "mother" and "father." Half-anything hybrids are impossible due to each species being very different from each other. The only exception is with the Asari. They're a mono-gendered race that reproduces by melding their nervous system with that of someone else; this act scrambles some of the DNA in one of their eggs, producing the genetic diversity necessary for continuing adaptation. The asari is always the "mother" if one takes a mother to be the one to bear a child.

Flipped in Po Po Lo Crois, in which Pietro and his sister are indeed half-dragon, with a draconic ruler being their grandfather, at that, the mother is actually the dragon.

In Final Fantasy VII, Aerith's father was human and her mother was Cetra, an ancient race that had long since left the planet.

Final Fantasy X plays it both ways. Yuna's father is human and her mother is an Al Bhed, a race of atheists with swirling green eyes. She also has a relationship with Tidus, who is a dream.

Played with in Fire Emblem Jugdral, depending on your pairings : indeed, characters with Holy Blood can be seen as not totally human, since they're the descendants of warriors who got special powers by drinking the blood of ancient Dragons and making pacts with them to fight an Evil Empire.

Nils and Ninian are the children of a female Ice Dragon named Aenir and a human, Nergal

Roy can be the result of this if Eliwood is paired with Ninian, making him quarter-Dragon.

Fire Emblem Tellius has a straight example with the Lehran and Altina line, since the former was a black heron laguz and the latter was a human, but is inverted with Soren's parents, since his mom is a black dragon and his dad is a human.

The game mostly uses Boldly Coming for most of its shape shifters. The only way this can be played straight is if a female Avatar marries Yarne, causing the resulting male Morgan to be part Taguel.

Nowi (a dragon) and Panne (Taguel) can marry human men and have Half-Human Hybrid children (Nah and the aforementioned Yarne, respectively) with them... including a male Avatar. Similarly, Tiki (also a dragon) can marry a male Avatar and be the mother of a female Morgan.

Of course, the Avatar being the Avatar of an evil dragon god makes every pairing including him or her this trope.

Fire Emblem Fates has any of the children produced by a female Avatar (except Selkie and Velouria, who have nonhuman fathers). Their grandfather Anankos was a dragon, a female Avatar will be half human, and the children will end up being a quarter dragon, with the ability to assume a dragon form.

Played straight in Lunar: Silver Star Story with Jessica's beastman father and human mother. Potentially inverted with Jessica and her love interest Kyle - although they don't have children during the story, it seems inevitable that they will live happily ever after (in a Slap-Slap-Kiss sort of way).

Inverted in Tales of Symphonia with Raine and Genis Sage, who had an elf mother and a human father.

Played straight with Lloyd who has a human mother and angel father. Played with if you realize his father Kratos was originally a human who transformed into an angel.

Breath of Fire II inverted this trope. The hero is a child of a human priest and a dragon: that white dragon sealing the entrance of the caves at the back mountains.

The Dragon Age setting inverts this trope with the elves, who can interbreed with the humans but the offspring is apparently fully human, or close enough. Given their status as Enslaved Elves, it almost always means Human father, Elven mother.

Assuming an even split among player races (and that every player chooses to use Morrigan's ritual to avoid the Heroic Sacrifice), inverted two-thirds of the time with a male Warden and Morrigan's baby.

The epilogue of Baldur's Gate indicates that the male player character can end up having a son with Viconia (so long as you complete that romance and choose to remain mortal), so he is half drow on his mother's side and half human/surface elf/whatever on his father's. Same with Aerie in Baldur's Gate II. The child is half winged elf, half whatever-the-player-is.

Also inverted in Dragon Quest VIII, which has a similar setup for the hero's parents, with the added twist that daddy was also royalty, making this legacy even more extra-special. Lampshaded by Angelo after The Reveal, when he makes a comment to the effect of "One is special enough; being both is just RUDE."

Gender-flipped in Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny - Jubei Yagyu's mother is an Oni who fell in love with his human father.

Inverted in Guilty Gear. Dizzy's father was a human (unknown, but often thought by fans to be either Kliff Undersn or Sol Badguy, despite the latter also being a gear — or better said a human scientist who became a gear) and her mother was a gear (Justice). In Guilty Gear 2, Sin's father is human (Ky Kiske) and mother is a "gear" ( hinted to be Dizzy).

In The Sims 2, your male Sims can get pregnant by male aliens. Of course, this means that the human, despite being male, plays the "Mom" role, so this trope arguably still applies.

Inverted by Eddie Riggs from Brütal Legend, whose mother is the Emperor of the demons, Succoria, and whose father is the leader of the human rebellion, Riggnarok.

Django and Sabata from Boktai were the children of Ringo, a human, and Mani, one of the Immortals and the sister of Hel to boot! One line states it's the reason the boys can come into contact with dark matter and Klorofolun without becoming undead and is Fan Wanked as the reason why Django could become a half-vampire.

The Dragon Commander is a bastard child of the King of Rivellon and an ancient dragon; albeit one who seduced the king while in human form. In-game, the Commander can morph into a massive dragon to aid his armies in battle.

Usually averted in Dela The Hooda, as well as in the more erotic comics made by Style Wager and Greg Older. In human/furry relationships, the human is usually a man, and the furry is a woman.

In Darken, Mink and her siblings' mother is a huge dragon, though she is often seen in a human form. Since they're all half-dragons, their father is presumably some manner of humanoid.

Roommates (and it's Spin-OffGirls Next Door) plays with this. From the main characters two have supernatural ancestry, Javert and Jareth. Javert is an inversion, he has a Witch Species mother and a fully human father (and she doesn't like to talk about the relationship). Jareth a subversion, he has a Fair Folk father and a Witch Species mother, but even as she looks human and was mortal once but isn't. Oh, and both have powers, Jareth is a highly powerful Fair Folk, Javert passes as human most of the time but we shouldn't underestimate his True Sight + Anti-Magic combination.

Inverted in the Fur Will Fly webcomic with Brad (human male) and Paige (mouse female), who have a daughter that takes after her mother in appearance and her father in personality.

Inverted in The Dreadful with devikin, who are always female and breed true with human males, giving birth to identical devikin daughters.

In Scandinavia and the World, New South Wales is portrayed as the daughter of Wales, a male human, and New Zealand, a female sheep.

Inverted for Antimony herself in Gunnerkrigg Court. Her father is human (in the physical sense), and her mother is the descendant of a fire elemental; the latter is mostly human due to many generations of Half-Human Hybrid-ization, but still has strong etheric powers linked to her element, and an unfortunate tendency to die after reproducing, "passing on her flame" to her daughter. Coyote snarkily lampshades how "interesting" the original marriage of man and elemental must have been.

In Erma, the titular character is the elementary school-aged daughter of a human father and Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl mother. They're shown to be a perfectly normal, loving family like any other.

Web Original

In The Gamer's Alliance, the human cleric Delora and the demon warrior Omaroch are the parents of the half-demon children Refan and Kareth.

Western Animation

Stargate: Infinity had Ec'co, who got the gender-flipped version of this, as his father is human. In a further subversion, his species is only remotely human. see this picture◊? He's the green guy all the way on the right. And the females aren't that much different from the males.

Regular Show has Margaret's robin mother and human father. She's actually a robin (on the outside, at least) rather than human.

Inverted for the DCAU character Warhawk, who is the son of the human John Stewart and the Thanagarian Hawkgirl.

The titular character from Steven Universe has a human father, but his mother is a Gem, one of the mystical female-looking beings that have magical powers and are practically immortal (They don't get old, but can die in battle). She, Rose Quartz, gave up her physical form to deliver Steven, though part of her lives in him and gives him his own powers. And he is raised by three more (female-looking, but not actually female) Gems. This family is known as The Crystal Gems.

Song of the Sea has its central family be a human father and selkie mother. Son Ben is human (referred to as such several times during the movie), but daughter Saoirse is a selkie like her mum.

In Star Wars: The Clone Wars one sees a clone which is deserted from his unit, and is a Twi'lek woman together. And they have two children who are half-human hybrids.

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